Syndromic surveillance can be characterised as a process involving the continuous analysis of health data to provide immediate feedback. The data sources scanned should therefore represent high population coverage, be acquired continuously, in an automated manner, and be available in digital format....

Syndromic surveillance is a tool for continuous, automated extraction of surveillance information
from health data sources. The research documented in this dissertation aimed at exploring informatics
and data mining tools in order to develop and implement techniques to harvest additional
surveillanc...

Approximately 60% of human pathogens and emerging infectious diseases are zoonotic. Simulation models are increasingly being used to investigate the spread of diseases, evaluate intervention strategies and guide the decisions of policy makers. In this thesis a systematic review of modeling methods a...